With the help of a team of experts and the latest in 3D scanning technology, Alexander Armstrong, along with Dr Michael Scott, explores the hidden underground treasures that made Rome the powerhouse of the ancient world. In his favourite city, he uncovers a lost subterranean world that helped build and run the world's first metropolis and its empire.
From the secret underground...
作为两对相处了十余年的朋友,莎利(朱迪·戴维斯 Judy Davis 饰)和杰克(西德尼·波拉克 Sydney Pollack 饰)之间的和平分手让加贝(伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen 饰)和朱迪(米亚·法罗 Mia Farrow 饰)夫妇感到不可思议。当看见杰克迅速的另结新欢之后,原本心平气和的萨利感到怒不可遏,为了安抚朋友受伤的感情,朱迪将自己的同事麦克尔(连姆·尼森 Liam Neeson 饰)介绍给了她,后者对萨利的狂热却让朱迪的内心里很不是滋味。
另一边,才华横溢的学生雷恩(朱丽叶特·刘易斯 Juliette Lewis 饰)吸引了作为老师的加贝的注意,尽管想在婚姻中保持忠诚,但他向往雷恩的心却像一列火车般无法回头。同时,和新欢相处并不愉快的杰克发现自己对旧爱念念不舍,而此时的萨利正和麦克尔打得火热。就是这样四个在职场上春风得意的成年人,他们的感情生活却是一团糟。导演伍迪·艾伦运用大量的对话探讨了夫妻和男女之间感情的始末,将现代人的情感和生活状态描绘的淋漓尽致。
查尔斯(安德烈·杜索里埃 André Dussollier 饰)曾是一位精明强干备受尊重的警官,如今,慢慢老去的他不得不提前开始他的退休生活,因为他被查出了患有阿兹海默症。就这样,查尔斯来到了一家专门针对阿兹海默症患者开放的疗养院生活,这里规律而又宁静的日子让查尔斯渐渐开始觉得一切并没有他想象的那么糟糕。
然而,噩梦还是开始了。在疗养院中接二连三的发生了患者死亡的意外,多年来浸淫在警队中的查尔斯敏感的察觉到一切都不是巧合,是有一个邪恶的人躲在幕后,亲手策划了这些死亡。查尔斯独自展开了对事件的调查,就在他里真相越来越近的同时,危险也离他越来越近。
本部饱受争议的离奇影片围绕马戏团里一群畸形人展开。矮人汉斯(哈利·厄尔斯 Harry Earles饰)暗自倾心于“正常人”——美貌的秋千表演者克里奥佩特拉(奥尔加·巴古拉诺娃 Olga Baclanova饰),同为侏儒人的弗里达(黛西·厄尔斯 Daisy Earles饰)告诫汉斯,她只是为他的钱财。克里奥佩特拉与“正常人”大力士赫克留斯(道格•霍奇森 Henry Victor饰)两人相好,设计让克里奥佩特拉嫁给汉斯得到钱财。婚礼上,克里奥佩特拉大吼在场的人都是“FREAKS”,激怒了所有畸形人。雨夜,畸形人对这两个“正常人”展开了报复…… 本片在1932年发行后因题材过于怪诞而被禁止,成为了当时的赔钱电影。可在当下来看,却是一部难得的“正常”影片。导演向我们抛掷了一个赤裸裸的提问:到底谁才是“正常人”?
Brooklyn-based Ella Richards does freelance work as a seamstress to pay the bills, but is also a struggling fashion designer, her talent which her friend Max, who often gets her her sewing work, can see. She specializes in designs for plus sized women such as herself in knowing that the high end fashion industry largely ignores this majority segment of the population in she herself having felt that exclusion all her life. Katie, her best friend and roommate, has her own fashion industry aspirations in wanting to be a fashion editor, although she admits the environment at Look, the high end fashion magazine where she works as an assistant, is not a pleasant one in the Editor-in-Chief Claudia Davenport and her assistant Liza, Katie's boss, treating people in general, including staff, like garbage unless it otherwise serves their needs. The first day that Ella helps Katie with an important fashion shoot at the magazine coincides with Derek Colby's first day there, Colby Publishing, his father Roger Colby's company, the magazine's parent company, assigning him to deal with the magazine's declining revenues, both in advertising and subscriptions, work he has done with other magazines under the Colby banner. Derek secretly asks Ella for a crash course in fashion design to assist in this task at the magazine, she his choice of teacher due to her knowledge of fashion in general, and she seemingly not being intimidated by him which most people tend to be in being a Colby in combination with his good looks resulting in he placing number seven of the most eligible bachelors in New York City. In spending time with Ella, Derek can see the revenue potential of the magazine expanding into the plus sized market and seemingly starts to fall for her in the process in wanting to do one of the first articles in this vein on her design career, much against the wishes of both Claudia and Liza. Beyond whether Derek is able to change the magazine's fortunes with this new direction, what happens between Ella and Derek will depend on whether Ella herself is confident enough in herself and Derek, who generally can have any woman he wants on his arm.—Huggo